Reminds me of arguing with a co-worker; he claimed his Sony 4:3 CRT TV was "HD". I told him it may be capable of receiving an HD signal, but it's definitely not putting out a full HD picture.
You say "religious nut job" at first, and then you gloss over who actually proposed that bill in Virginia. You also say "he made it illegal". Sorry, bills don't just get activated by a delegate. The house votes on these things, ya know.
If you want to blame someone, blame the democrats of Virginia, not the religious.
The only time worth watching Sci-Fi is Fridays.. Stargate, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica.
Everything else is officially crap. I can't believe they are dumping money towards the awful made for TV movies you mentioned, while canning "Farscape".
I don't know if Enermax has gotten better, but two years ago, I bought one of their 450 watt, and another 500 watt unit from them, and had nothing but problems. Switched to Antec TruPowers, and haven't looked back..
I had one of these units for about a week, then returned it and got my money back. The password vault software will work with FireFox, yet Microsoft has disabled it. It will even go through the same "click the box where you enter your password" routine; it just never saves the XML password data properly. Contacting Microsoft tech. support, they informed me that the only application they designed it to work with is Internet Explorer and the Windows logon process.
Pfft.
I'd rather just use a password management system, anyhow. There's plenty of free and open source ones out there, even for Windows. After entering my long passphrase (about 20 characters) I have access to all of my forum logins, etc..
There really needs to be some changeups made at SciFi's upper level. I mean, why are they dumping money into worthless made-for-TV-movies like "Chubacabra"? Or a movie about giant larva invading a town? Gimme a friggin break. This is worth showing 24/7, yet Farscape isn't worth funding, nor is Battlestar Galactica?
I bet if you looked at all of SciFi's programming, it's 90% _not_ Sci-Fi!
This is one of my biggest gripes about being a freelance computer consultant; you'll spec out a custom PC for the customer, and then mention that Windows XP Pro costs around $120 (or Home for $90 or whatever) and they act like that's just too much to spend. Then of course, they want Office too.. and they reaaaally freak out over the price of that.
Microsoft has even stated in the past that they _do_ keep a listing of all generated/distributed keys, as well as what part of the world they were shipped to, etc..
You should be able to find local computer stores that sell it for even cheaper. When Windows XP Pro was first released, I was able to purchase it for $90 + a $10 mouse from one of my favorite mom&pop shops. I'd say that's a pretty sweet deal.
See, the difference is, you can actually buy real-world goods with a credit card. If you walked into ___(your favorite store name here)___ and asked if you could pay with Lineage gold credits, they'd look at you like you're crazy.
The state of external enclosures, USB chipsets and firewire chipsets is a sad thing.
I had to go through 3 different USB chipsets (different motherboards) before my external enclosure would write data without random corruption. The nForce2 motherboards are notorious for having strange timing issues, and making this problem even more apparent.
Firewire's no better, either. I had an Adaptec firewire card (Texas Instruments chipset, I believe) and it worked with my external drives, yet after 5 or 10 minutes, would randomly drop the drive and corrupt data. Also, if I booted up my computer with the firewire drives attached, they wouldn't be found! On another computer with built-in firewire (nForce2 motherboard), Windows would blue-screen whenever a firewire drive was attached. I also tried my Creative Audigy's "firewire" port, and it too failed. Only after purchasing another firewire card from NewEgg was I able to get my drives semi-working in firewire mode.
It's really sad that these companies and chipset manufacturers can't get on the same page. In the end, it just screws the customer. I don't appreciate losing 100+ gigs of data because you guys wanted to cut corners.
These bots were first featured on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, and they're actually very smart. They do respond to radio commands, most of the time. Each bot has it's own stats (bravery, teamwork, skill, etc.) -- if he has a low teamwork score, he's more likely to ignore your commands and just do his own thing.
Also, these bots can work online, as far as I know. I too hope there will be some way to filter them out. I hate loading up Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 and finding a nice low ping server, only to discover all the other players are bots.
I agree on the battery problem; they should have made it easier to change out.
In regards to opening the iPod case, try guitar picks of different thicknesses, inserted spaced out along the side; they won't scratch up the plastic or the metal casing, and tend to pry it open fairly quickly.
Apparently you've never used an iBook or something that doesn't support OSX's GUI features 100% in hardware. It's fricken dog slow; namely because it's using the CPU to render your nice "genie out of a bottle" and transparent drop-shadowed windows.
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Reminds me of arguing with a co-worker; he claimed his Sony 4:3 CRT TV was "HD". I told him it may be capable of receiving an HD signal, but it's definitely not putting out a full HD picture.
You say "religious nut job" at first, and then you gloss over who actually proposed that bill in Virginia. You also say "he made it illegal". Sorry, bills don't just get activated by a delegate. The house votes on these things, ya know.
If you want to blame someone, blame the democrats of Virginia, not the religious.
The only time worth watching Sci-Fi is Fridays.. Stargate, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica.
Everything else is officially crap. I can't believe they are dumping money towards the awful made for TV movies you mentioned, while canning "Farscape".
I don't know if Enermax has gotten better, but two years ago, I bought one of their 450 watt, and another 500 watt unit from them, and had nothing but problems. Switched to Antec TruPowers, and haven't looked back..
I had one of these units for about a week, then returned it and got my money back. The password vault software will work with FireFox, yet Microsoft has disabled it. It will even go through the same "click the box where you enter your password" routine; it just never saves the XML password data properly. Contacting Microsoft tech. support, they informed me that the only application they designed it to work with is Internet Explorer and the Windows logon process.
Pfft.
I'd rather just use a password management system, anyhow. There's plenty of free and open source ones out there, even for Windows. After entering my long passphrase (about 20 characters) I have access to all of my forum logins, etc..
No one cares about your opinion, especially an opinion as wrong and wacko as yours. I mean, with gems like this..
The killing under Saddam was less than the killing under George Bush.
For reasons beyond the scope of this comment, the mental illness called anger has been increasing in women in the United States.
Do I even need to respond?
P.S. - Way to be off-topic. We were talking about the State of the Union address, not your personal rant/vendetta against Bush.
P.P.S. - You'd make Michael Moore proud, and that's not a good thing.
There really needs to be some changeups made at SciFi's upper level. I mean, why are they dumping money into worthless made-for-TV-movies like "Chubacabra"? Or a movie about giant larva invading a town? Gimme a friggin break. This is worth showing 24/7, yet Farscape isn't worth funding, nor is Battlestar Galactica?
I bet if you looked at all of SciFi's programming, it's 90% _not_ Sci-Fi!
If you didn't strip your Apple tags, yeah..
JHymn can be set up to do so, and they even have instructions on their main page.
I have them on CD at home, if you really want me to dig them up..
*sigh*
They even said, when SP2 came out, that "keygenned" keys would work, because they're not checking against a database yet.
It seems like they are now finally starting to enforce the database checks, or getting around to it..
Maybe because just the plaintext/sleeve key is stored in the registry, and not the actual activation keys.
Changing the plaintext key in the registry really doesn't do very much, at least as far as Windows Update is concerned.
"crashing on an occasional basis" ?
Where did you get that from? SP1 won't even install if you're using the FCKGW- key. SP2 won't, either, for that matter.
This is one of my biggest gripes about being a freelance computer consultant; you'll spec out a custom PC for the customer, and then mention that Windows XP Pro costs around $120 (or Home for $90 or whatever) and they act like that's just too much to spend. Then of course, they want Office too.. and they reaaaally freak out over the price of that.
Microsoft has even stated in the past that they _do_ keep a listing of all generated/distributed keys, as well as what part of the world they were shipped to, etc..
You should be able to find local computer stores that sell it for even cheaper. When Windows XP Pro was first released, I was able to purchase it for $90 + a $10 mouse from one of my favorite mom&pop shops. I'd say that's a pretty sweet deal.
Why don't you backup/restore Windows XP's activation keys?
I _love_ my ADVC-100. I've had it for about a year now, and it hasn't done me wrong yet.
I don't get it.
We were talking about gold, and now you bring up God?
See, the difference is, you can actually buy real-world goods with a credit card. If you walked into ___(your favorite store name here)___ and asked if you could pay with Lineage gold credits, they'd look at you like you're crazy.
I love you, man!
I want you to have my babies.
The state of external enclosures, USB chipsets and firewire chipsets is a sad thing.
I had to go through 3 different USB chipsets (different motherboards) before my external enclosure would write data without random corruption. The nForce2 motherboards are notorious for having strange timing issues, and making this problem even more apparent.
Firewire's no better, either. I had an Adaptec firewire card (Texas Instruments chipset, I believe) and it worked with my external drives, yet after 5 or 10 minutes, would randomly drop the drive and corrupt data. Also, if I booted up my computer with the firewire drives attached, they wouldn't be found! On another computer with built-in firewire (nForce2 motherboard), Windows would blue-screen whenever a firewire drive was attached. I also tried my Creative Audigy's "firewire" port, and it too failed. Only after purchasing another firewire card from NewEgg was I able to get my drives semi-working in firewire mode.
It's really sad that these companies and chipset manufacturers can't get on the same page. In the end, it just screws the customer. I don't appreciate losing 100+ gigs of data because you guys wanted to cut corners.
I'm sure the police have better things to do than worry about your VIRTUAL GOODS, VIRTUAL MONEY and VIRTUAL CLOTHING in a VIRTUAL WORLD.
Gah. Someone please put this person out his misery.
These bots were first featured on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, and they're actually very smart. They do respond to radio commands, most of the time. Each bot has it's own stats (bravery, teamwork, skill, etc.) -- if he has a low teamwork score, he's more likely to ignore your commands and just do his own thing.
Also, these bots can work online, as far as I know. I too hope there will be some way to filter them out. I hate loading up Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 and finding a nice low ping server, only to discover all the other players are bots.
I agree on the battery problem; they should have made it easier to change out.
In regards to opening the iPod case, try guitar picks of different thicknesses, inserted spaced out along the side; they won't scratch up the plastic or the metal casing, and tend to pry it open fairly quickly.
Apparently you've never used an iBook or something that doesn't support OSX's GUI features 100% in hardware. It's fricken dog slow; namely because it's using the CPU to render your nice "genie out of a bottle" and transparent drop-shadowed windows.